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Jack Rimmer (Jason Merrells, series 1−3; guest series 15) is the headteacher of Waterloo Road from the start of the series, who initially assumes the position in an acting capacity after his predecessor's public breakdown. His efforts to turn the school around face various challenges, and his confrontational style causes consternation.
Series 15 was announced along with series 13 and 14 by the BBC in August 2023. [1] In January 2025, further details around the series was revealed, with 8 episodes commissioned for the fifteenth series, it also confirmed that Series 15 would premiere on 11 February 2025, with the full series being released on BBC iPlayer prior to transmission.
Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. In September 2021, the show was recommissioned for an eleventh series , with production returning to the Greater Manchester area.
Waterloo Road, now fully integrated into Lowry Community Academies Trust, has been relocated to a new site, and Joe has become Acting Head under the mentorship of Steve Savage, the Headteacher of another school in the Trust. His first day in charge gets off to a difficult start when the staff realise they do not have a staff room.
The show is set in a failing comprehensive school of the same name and focuses on both the professional and personal lives of the students and staff. [3] The show was initially filmed on a former primary school site in Kirkholt, Rochdale, [4] before moving production to a former secondary school site in Greenock, Scotland for series eight to ten. [5]
Wenger felt that schoolchildren were most-affected by the pandemic and Waterloo Road was "the perfect lens" to explore this. [12] Roach explained that the issues in schools created "incredible and emotionally powerful themes" for the show. [12] Scriptwriter Liz Lake opined that Waterloo Road is "a campaigning show with social realism in its DNA ...
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as a missing student, adultery, bulimia nervosa, bullying, sexism, contraception, an affair between a teacher and a pupil, child pornography, homelessness, young carers, a dog attack, Alzheimer's disease ...
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as the difficulties faced by split families, cybercrime, adultery, illiteracy, domestic violence, nervous breakdown, anger management issues, drug overdose, test anxiety, assault, poverty, starvation ...